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| M D WoodhamsSummaryAffiliation: Massey University Country: New Zealand Publications
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Reconstructing phylogeny by quadratically approximated maximum likelihoodM D Woodhams
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Bioinformatics 20:i348-54. 2004..The derivation depends on Hadamard conjugation, and hence is limited to the simple symmetric models of Kimura and of Jukes and Cantor. Preliminary testing has demonstrated the accuracy of QAML is close to that of ML...
Can deleterious mutations explain the time dependency of molecular rate estimates?Michael Woodhams
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, New Zealand
Mol Biol Evol 23:2271-3. 2006..These limits are high and get higher if additional reasonable assumptions are made. This casts doubt on whether deleterious mutations are able to explain the apparent rate acceleration...
RNase MRP and the RNA processing cascade in the eukaryotic ancestorMichael D Woodhams
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
BMC Evol Biol 7:S13. 2007....
Modelling mitochondrial site polymorphisms to infer the number of segregating units and mutation rateMichael D Hendy
Allan Wilson Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North 4474, New Zealand
Biol Lett 5:397-400. 2009..This estimate of mu(m) was found to be consistent with earlier estimates from ancient DNA analysis...
Mutation and evolutionary rates in adélie penguins from the antarcticCraig D Millar
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
PLoS Genet 4:e1000209. 2008..53 and 1.17). Importantly, the latter rate is not statistically different from our estimate of the mutation rate. These results are in contrast to the view that molecular rates are time dependent...
